Name Rosemond Tuve | Nieces Trygve Tuve, Lucy Tuve | |
Died December 20, 1964, Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States Siblings Merle Tuve, George Lewis Tuve, Richard Larsen Tuve Parents Ida Marie Larsen Tuve, Anthony G. Tuve Books Essays by Rosemond Tuve, Images & themes in five poem, Sacred Parody of Love Poe, Elizabethan and metaphys, Allegorical imagery | ||
Rosemond Teresa Marie Tuve (November 29, 1903 – December 20, 1964) was an American scholar of English literature, specializing in Renaissance literature—in particular, Edmund Spenser.
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Biography
She was born November 29, 1903, in Canton, South Dakota, the daughter of Anthony G. Tuve, the president of Augustana College, and Ida Larsen Tuve, instructor of music there. One of her older brothers is Merle Tuve, a geophysicist.
She received her BA in 1924 from the University of Minnesota, and received a scholarship for graduate study at Bryn Mawr College, where she was awarded an MA, in 1923. Following further study at Somerville College, Oxford, England, she received a PhD from Bryn Mayr in 1931. After further study in England and France, she was appointed instructor of English at Connecticut College in 1934. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1936, associate professor in 1942, and full professor in 1947. She remained at Connecticut until 1962, when she was appointed professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to be appointed to that position. After teaching there for three terms, she died of a stroke on December 20, 1964.
Publications
Her first published work, Seasons and Months: Studies in a Tradition of Medieval English Poetry. was her PhD thesis, published in Paris by Libraire Universitarie in 1933. She subsequently published the following books:
A selection of her essays, was published as Essays: Spenser, Herbert, Milton, ed. by Thomas P Roche, Princeton [N.J.] Princeton University Press, 1970. ISBN 978-0-691-06171-9